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The security world confronts businesses and organizations with a lot of challenges. The recent exposure of Efail, Meltdown and Spectre, low rates of DMARC adoption, and the ever-looming “Cyber Security Pearl Harbor”, should be a bit worrisome. We are consistently and constantly preaching about the dangers of social engineering and the lack of user awareness.Read more

What do Cryptolocker, Dridex, and Locky have in common? Besides being evil malware, they all started with malicious attachments. An innocent looking PDF, ZIP or Other, and before you know it you your sending money to a cyber criminal or a ransomware recovery specialist. When it comes to malicious attachments, the attack vectors can beRead more

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2017 data and it isn’t pretty. BEC and all forms of Phishing caused plenty of damage, a record number of complaints were filed, and the total losses reported were only slightly down from the previous year at just over $1.4 billion. It’s interesting to seeRead more

Warren Buffett has been among the world’s richest individuals for decades now. He’s so far ahead of the curve that it seems to bend because he says it will. Cyber security has been a concern to him for a long while now, and he seems to be using his public visibility to place more emphasisRead more

How To Measure the Biggest Data Breaches of All Time? It’s hard to come up with a definitive list of the biggest data breaches. Do we rank them by the size of the  breach? Direct financial impact? Indirect social impact? Average cost per victim? Political impact? Notoriety? It is an exercise in futility to rankRead more